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Evidentiary Tools for Indigenous Struggles Against Green Colonialism
This project supports Indigenous communities that are facing environmental and cultural threats from extractivist activities, specifically hydrogen plants in Namibia and mining operations in Canada.
Combining local knowledges with digital tools and interdisciplinary methods, the researchers will investigate neo-colonial exploitation in the guise of green energy transition.
The Forensic Architecture agency whose pioneering methods of spatial reconstruction have shed light on human rights abuses globally will work with indigenous communities to develop practical tools for mapping, documenting, and defending the complex life worlds that are currently being threatened by such extractivist incursions in these regions.
The project will produce tools of resistance tools to strengthen indigenous sovereignty and campaigns for realising just climate futures.
TEAM
Susan Schuppli, Mentor & Project Lead
Agata Nguyen Chuong, Researcher & Innovation Associate
Omar Ferwati, Researcher & Innovation Associate
This design-led research project is a research collaboration between Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and industry partner, the Design Museum also based in London. Funded through the AHRC 2025-26.
Grassy Narrows First Nation taking Ontario to court over Mining Act, lack of consultation on land claims, CBC 12.07.2024.
Germany eyes Namibia's green hydrogen, DW: 12.02.2022
This project supports Indigenous communities that are facing environmental and cultural threats from extractivist activities, specifically hydrogen plants in Namibia and mining operations in Canada.
Combining local knowledges with digital tools and interdisciplinary methods, the researchers will investigate neo-colonial exploitation in the guise of green energy transition.
The Forensic Architecture agency whose pioneering methods of spatial reconstruction have shed light on human rights abuses globally will work with indigenous communities to develop practical tools for mapping, documenting, and defending the complex life worlds that are currently being threatened by such extractivist incursions in these regions.
The project will produce tools of resistance tools to strengthen indigenous sovereignty and campaigns for realising just climate futures.
TEAM
Susan Schuppli, Mentor & Project Lead
Agata Nguyen Chuong, Researcher & Innovation Associate
Omar Ferwati, Researcher & Innovation Associate
This design-led research project is a research collaboration between Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and industry partner, the Design Museum also based in London. Funded through the AHRC 2025-26.
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Grassy Narrows First Nation taking Ontario to court over Mining Act, lack of consultation on land claims, CBC 12.07.2024.
Germany eyes Namibia's green hydrogen, DW: 12.02.2022
Thousands of Indigenous people people gathered at the Ontario Legislature to demand a face-to-face meeting with Premier Doug Ford. They say the province has allowed thousands of mining applications without their knowledge or consent. Source: CBC, 2023
Protests against the lack of transpareny in negotiations between Namibia and Germany around plans to develop hydrogen plants in the Kharas region. Source: DW, 2022
RESEARCH